Greylisting... where to start...

[ram]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 20:00 -0500, Jeffry Page wrote:
> OK so I keep hearing how great greylisting is and
> I am always trying to better the mail server, as I hate spam.
> 
> Yes I found http://www.greylisting.org
> 
> There is just an info overload with links all over.
> No comments or ratings on different methods / scripts so I don't know which
> is best.
> 
> I am using sendmail and I already have MIMEDefang installed for something
> else.
> 
> I thought implementing something in MIMEDefang would be best?
> 

> I do know perl pretty good and can do whatever.
> 
Greylisting should be handled by the MTA , probably by a milter. 
Use an existing milter ( unfortunately perl milters are unstable)
But greylisting as a method is not appreciated by all. If you are doing
it for your own domains mails on a single server that should be
perfectly fine. But at a MX host with multiple servers greylists are a
huge pain to manage and create more problems than solve them. Anyway
with spammers using proper MTA's now greylists are not really that
effective IMHO. 













> Can anyone point in the right direction? Thanks.
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